The bay was even calmer today so we decided to start around the corner on the western side of the island. I was hoping to find the yellow pot-bellied seahorse that Ben and I had seen just after the storm. Kim got in near the ramp and I got in just to the east of the pool. It was actually calm enough to get in on the western side of the wall but I was carrying a pony bottle slung under my left arm and I wasn't sure how difficult it would be. We swam on the surface around the corner to the western side of the island before descending.

We headed in a south-westerly direction until we reached around 12 metres on one of the sponge gardens. We then headed north, north west. Kim found a red indianfish.

We followed the reef around to the corner and then headed north until we reached the corner near the caves. Here I found a couple of Flabellina rubrolineata nudibranchs on hydroids. These were probably the same two from a couple of weeks ago.

We continued around the corner and up the slope. I found a juvenile pygmy pipehorse in the same location as yesterday, probably the same one.

Further up the slope I looked on the rocks with the pink sea tulips for the other juvenile pygmy but still couldn't find it.

I caught up with Kim at the top of the slope and we followed the boulders to the exit. We got out at the ramp.

Buddy

Kim Dinh

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

88 minutes

Maximum depth

15.1 m

Average depth

11.1 m

Water temperature

18.3°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.

Low

3:57am

0.32m

High

9:59am

1.45m

Low

3:37pm

0.53m

High

10:04pm

1.91m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

Lens port

Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41

Strobe

2 x Ikelite SubStrobe DS161

Photographs

Depth information, where present, indicates the depth of the camera when the photograph was taken and can be used to approximate the depth of the subject.